Classroom Assistants: Average Earnings

(asked on 8th July 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 7 September 2017 to Question 8320 on Classroom Assistants: Average Earnings, if he will publish that salary data for (a) 2017 and (b) 2018.


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Nick Gibb
This question was answered on 11th July 2019

The following table shows the average salary for all full-time general teaching assistants, higher level teaching assistants and all teaching assistants in local authority maintained schools, academy schools and free schools in England, as at November 2017 and 2018.

Full-time General Teaching Assistants

Full-time Higher Level Teaching Assistants

Full-time All Teaching Assistants

2017

Local Authority Maintained Schools

£19,396

£22,911

£19,812

Academies

£19,020

£22,019

£19,282

Free Schools

£17,502

£20,319

£17,659

All Schools

£19,160

£22,542

£19,508

2018

Local Authority Maintained Schools

£19,645

£23,362

£20,094

Academies

£19,390

£22,407

£19,663

Free Schools

£17,942

£20,341

£18,102

All Schools

£19,457

£22,917

£19,820

Source: School Workforce Census

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